Arizona silver belt., 1887-01-15

The Results Of lseSout oheryations~
Nvhcre tbc Grcat Danger EXISTS.

dIen and people bitten, and % whole
neighhorhOods thrown into states Of the
. widest excitement by the supposed pres
gnGo Of rahid animal in tlieuetghbor-
hood living in q neighboFhool whero
several alarms were sounded during the
lasa few months, the writer wa8 more
impressed with his own 90 well as the
ignorance Of other people about its pc,
cuIarities than with the disease itself,
md in his search for tho literature on
tho subject, in the nope of spreading
some enlightenment, found nothing
more retcnt or authoritative than an az,
uyle ON "Hydrophob.a in Paris con.
,ributea 10y N, Dularim- Beaunetz 10
that most remarkable of periodic publ
cations Les Lettres ct les Arts,
10 DO sure, the writer Of the article in
question is a believer in Fasteur and his
theories, although there are many who
speak of the learned French scientist as
"a charlatan Nevertheless. M Dujardin-
Beaumet2 is man Of high standing,
and whether his theories are correct or
not She facts he presents are interesting
and have been gathered by observation
1.-The modern scientific method.
have spoken OF the writer as a man
ks high standing and distinction, He
was, il appears, delegated in 1881 by the
department Of health in Paris 70 observe
the manifestations Of hydrophobia in
man, and ia this connection was sent to
Constantinopie to Learn, if possible, the
causes Of the immunity enjoyed both By
the dogs and its inhabitants from the
disease His mission, therefore, was a
thoroughly scientific one, and since man
has a peculiar affection for dogs and, as
the essayisG says wherever there are
Large congregations Of people there are
bound TO lie inany dogs and many casea
Of hydrophohia, his researches are as up,
plicable to New York as to the French
capital.
1T is a mistake" says Dujagtin-
Beaumetz, ito suppose that all persons
bitten by rabid animals attain the dis
ease. PasteUr, ia a communication
made 70 the Academy OF Medicine,
stated his belief that not one out Of six
persons bitten by a rabid dog would
contract the disease. This belief he
founded on statistics furnished BY the
department OF police NJ. Daiardha-
Beaumetz goes eyen further than this,
saying that owing to tie incomplete
statistics gathered by the police, he
should fix the number at one IN every
fifteen, Or even twenty. "We ought,
he says first 81 an To establish this Law
--that Is that persons bitten through
their garments 60 not contract hydro
phobia, since the slightest texture viii
wipe the teeth OF the dog and prevent
the penetration Of tbs rabid VIRUS into
the system. In an the cases Of hydro
phobia that | have observed Che had
treated As many as fifty cases) in
mankind during the last 1--WE years
every one Of them has been produced
BY bite on the uncovered parts In
exceptional cases I have seen the dis.
ease appear after bite through a gar.
nent; but here tie animal, i'll bard
fight, ha8 torn the clothing to piecesand
thus permitted tie teeth to penetrate 10
the naked part Bites on tlie hands and
face are usually the ones 70 produce
hydrophubia those On the hands being
more frequently the cause, Chldreu,
Offering more naked parts b, tha rabid
dog, are Tor tliis rcasoa more often
overtaken By tho nialady. Further.
more Q ehild offers less resistance than
4 man.
1T should DO remembered that It Is
not alone the bite Of a rabid dog that
can transmit the disease to man. a
touch Of the tongue is enough % inocu-
late il It comes ia contact with any raw
part Of the skin. Indeed, inoculatiou Of
this kind may be said 10 Be the most
dangerous, because Il almost invariably
passes unnoticel. | remember to have
seen young man ia o rabid fit while I
was with Dr. Leroy des Barres, at Sc.
Denis. The lad WINS workman, ana
had picked up little stray dog from lhe
street. The animal covered him with
caresses, ard among other things Licked
his lips, after which he ran away
Simple contact had been enough to
cause the death Of the Door fellow,
Even when the incubation Is carried
Aom one animal to another on the most
scientific principles Il does not always
produce rabies. Out Of sixteen dogs H.
ovulated BY Hertwig only Six went mad
and ont of ninety-nme inocuiations ~
Ronault at Abort, only sixty.soyen
were successful Finally Pasteur by his
new processes has found SOME animals
totally unsusceptibl9 10 thc virus
There il also an opinion prevalent
that madness is tho result 81 the impris-
onment to which We subject these ami
mails, and especially Che privations
which follow. This idea has strong
partisans They maintain that the DOS
which live in perfect freedom neveE have
hydrophobia. This doctrine is not based
on any scientific fact. ia Algiers, where
dogs live ia freedom, the disease exists,
and ] will chow why the dogs az Cou-
stantinople, who have been sighted as
examples, have little or 10 madness.
That th1 is certain, at all events, b
that Ia countries where madness does
not exist IL has never appeared sp0ntan.
eously. When Il has been produced Il
was by animals coming frofn Assistance,
which have been contaminated months
before. When ones tie fact Is estab.
lished that hydrophobia u not spon.
taneous growth Il is easy ID zee that the
disease can be extcrmlnated ii large
cities BY public laws provided prevent
i've measures ale vigorously applied.
Rabies exist at s.amboul. but only
affects tho dogs brought there BY stran-
gers. These animals succmnb only 10
madness when il has been contracted
several months before ID their natiye
country without transmitting the dis
case to the thousands 81 dogs which live
ia freedom in the streets of CONSTANT,
nople, and which are the citys most
faithful guardians. The reason for this